Wednesday, August 31, 2011

BABA RAMDEV : The Cookie Jar Yogi

Somewhere up in the hills, little yogic fledglings, rehearse their version of a Kindergarten rhyme

" Ba Ba Ramdev, have you any postures ?

Yes Sir ! Yes Sir !

Many ashrams full

One for masters, one for slaves,

And one for the damsel, who sizzles on screen "

Symmetric principles of rhyme and prose are unimportant, especially if the teacher in question is a certain Bollywood item dispenser. Considering that 'item numbers ' are not the only commodity being dispensed with, Baba Ramdev aka Ram Kishen has stirred and stretched to unexplainable limits, the elastic potential of the Indian body, steeped in the panache of the Yogis ways. All this and more, for a healthy living, or so, it is believed.

The economics that feed this healthy state of mind may not be that healthy after all.The unexplained concoctions sold to the public at large, in gimcrack cookie jars, promising nirvana from every possible ailment, has come under the cloud of suspicion. But, his flock of posture practicing, brew drooling assemblage just grow and grows ! This mammoth growth has built an empire stretching from the the banks of Haridwar to a little island in Scotland.

What drew my attention about this man, is his crusade to arouse public sentiment against corruption which paved way for a larger movement.He took on issues of Black money and illegal mining and wrestled with a half witted government , attempting an escape from their scheming clutches in the garb of a woman.

While turning and walking away from a profile so very versatile, the romp of the kindergarten rhetoric taps your eardrums,but,this time, a new tune....

A fauji with a twist (ed sense of humor) that's surprising. Luvd the ba ba on the ruppali's but you got a dazed deer caught int he headlights look going for me lol. This is what he must 'ave looked like when he was caught wearing the sari, yea?